Quincy Jones Quotes
After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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We care about margins.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
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Harper wants to mend fences with Bush. I think it's a mistake for the country, and I regret that it's happening after so much work has been done.
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I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
